QIF import: loss of payee, memo data

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 23:18:46 EST 2007


On Nov 26, 2007 11:56 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Known issue.
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495219

Bug 495219 addresses the first issue mentioned in my post, regarding
the loss of memos.

But no mention is made of the loss of payee. I may be one of the first
people to see this problem, because it is only occurring in investment
accounts with "Cash" transaction types, which are not supported in
2.2.1 due to bug 491581. But these are now working in my patched
version - see my previous thread, "Quicken to GnuCash (Windows)".

It turns out that Quicken (Premier 2006, anyway) doesn't export the
payee information for this type of transaction, so it never gets into
the QIF file in the first place. The GnuCash QIF importer then sees a
transaction with a memo but without a payee, so it copies the memo
into the payee.  Thus, the end result I see in the register is that
the payee has been dropped and memo inserted in its place. So this
behavior is caused by a bug in Quicken's export function.  I bring
this up because other users may experience the same thing once GnuCash
can import "Cash" transactions, and because there's no chance of a fix
from Intuit.

So I will (sigh) have to add the payees to the QIF file by hand before
importing.

Cheers,
Charles


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